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Morning Dew: Wait up

By Joe Tone

Courtesy of garycolet’s Flickr feed: A reminder to squeeze in those fall rides before scenes like this — at trail 401 in Crested Butte — are covered in snow. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…

The snow is blowing at Echo Mountain

By Rob Fisher

Hours before the storm blew into Denver on Sunday evening, the snow was falling (and blowing) 35 miles west at Echo Mountain. With a 700-foot vertical drop, it may not boast the longest runs in Colorado, but what Echo Mountain lacks in treachery in makes up for in convenience: It’s…

Hotel bookings down in Aspen. Will prices follow?

By Joe Tone

Opportunities for mere mortals to drink from the chalice of fancy that is Aspen could be on the rise this winter, if early-season hotel-booking numbers are any indication. A report released last week by Aspen-Snowmass showed a dip in occupancy in October and projected occupancy for November at those resorts…

Running free at Elk Meadow, aka Dog Heaven

By Greg Benchwick

Saturday was a beautiful day — one of those bluebird shiners that makes Colorado feel like the center of the universe. And nowhere was that more evident than Elk Meadow, home to a kick-ass local hike and an equally solid dog park…

Morning Dew: Aspen from the ground

By Joe Tone

A ground-level view of Aspen from jeepeenyc’s Flickr pool. To have your photos featured in Morning Dew, send them to edge@westword.com or post them to the Westword Flickr pool…

Wolf Creek opens Saturday. Sort Of.

By Kiernan Maletsky

Colorado’s southernmost ski resort, Wolf Creek, will open on Halloween this year. Don’t get too excited — it’s just the bunny hill for now. Still, lift tickets are only $20, and if your dreams of turning your tyke into a booze-free Bode Miller turn out to be a bust, at…

Top five things on our winter wish list

By Greg Benchwick

The leaves are falling in Denver, the Broncos are 6-0, and the lifts are turning at both A-Basin and Loveland. It’s going to be a wonderful winter. At least, that’s what we’re hoping — and wishing.Last year I got about five days of backcountry skiing in, a hut trip, loads…

Divas In Drag: Boarding for Breast Cancer Wednesday at Outdoor Divas

By Colin Bane

You might not be the least bit surprised by the lengths some local shredders, industry reps, lifties, and ski instructors will go to prove their love of female breasts. Still, as Blair Young, Outreach Director for Boarding for Breast Cancer points out, “It’s not every day that you get to…

Morning Dew: Inspiration from A-Basin

By Joe Tone

A skiier flying through A-Basin, courtesy of weiglen’s Flickr pool. To see your photos On the Edge, email them to edge@westword.com or join the Westword Flickr group…

Stephen Batura at Robischon Gallery

By Michael Paglia

For the past eight years, Denver artist Stephen Batura has been doing works of art based on an archive of historic photos from the collection of what used to be called the Colorado Historical Society and is now known as History Colorado. Batura, who once worked at the Denver Public…

Now Showing

By Michael Paglia

Currents. Traditional American Indian art is a well-established genre, and many Native American artists still practice the old forms of weaving, pottery-making, metalwork and basket-making. But there are also contemporary artists among the tribes, and this latter group is the focus of Currents: Native American Forces in Contemporary Art. The…

Now Playing

By Juliet Wittman

A Raisin in the Sun. This fifty-year-old play remains astonishingly relevant. The Younger family — grandmother Lena, son Walter Lee and twenty-year-old daughter Beneatha, as well as Walter Lee’s wife, Ruth, and young son Travis — live in a roach-infested Chicago apartment with a down-the-hall bathroom. Travis sleeps on the…

Good Hair

By Melissa Anderson

Don Imus’s hateful, racist 2007 remarks about “nappy-headed hos” underscored the immense fear of, and fascination with, the hair follicles of African-American women. Chris Rock, the host, co-writer, and co-producer of first-time director Jeff Stilson’s Good Hair, never mentions Imus’s outburst; his interest in the political, social and sexual entanglements…

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant

By Aaron Hillis

Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to the mass cult followings of the Twilight saga and HBO’s True Blood. However, the only authentic vampires in this first (and, I can all but…

Cinema on the Edge

By Susan Froyd

In terms of permeating the public mindspace, Halloween is huge. I mean HUGE. Throughout October, we’re all busy building awesome costumes, seeing Halloween plays, visiting pumpkin patches and corn mazes, buying witch cookies and, these days, even decorating our homes for Halloween. I have no complaints: Halloween is the kind…

Laughs for Lit

By Susan Froyd

Like many deserving cultural side products, the literary journal hasn’t fared well during the recession. Even the really good ones, like the University of Colorado Denver-sponsored Copper Nickel, have trouble attracting attention — let alone putting out a quality book — in these hard times. So what do you do?…

Ain’t Misbehavin’

By Amber Taufen

What could possibly be better than an all-showtunes karaoke night? How about Showtunes Karaoke with a burlesque performer emcee — such as Denver’s own Cora Vette, aka Reyna Von Vett — and female impersonators bringing back the ghosts of divas past? That’s the idea behind a collaboration between JR’s Bar…